Cuba and Canada to play Norceca Classic duel in Poland

WROCLAW, Poland.- The teams of Canada and Cuba will play a classic Norceca match as they begin the action in Pool F of Second Round at FIVB Men’s World Championship.

“They (the Cubans) have a great tradition of volleyball and we expect a big challenge as usual. The pool is very difficult and we need to improve,” said Canadian coach Glenn Hoag.

Canada’s captain Fred Winters is pleased with the results achieved in the first round when his team won four matches in a row after losing to Russia in their debut.

“One of our goals was to get into the second round and obviously we want more and our next objective is to be among the top six in the next round starting tomorrow,” he said.

On the other hand, Cuba’s Rodolfo Sanchez said to be pleased about the qualification to the second round and hope for a better performance from his side in this new phase of the competition.

“I hope we can play better and show our best volleyball in tomorrow’s match,” Sanchez stated. “We are aiming to gain as much points as we can, but we also know it will be a difficult task since the teams here are very strong.”

He also commented about the new breed of Cuban players in response to a question from the floor about the high number of Cubans playing in foreign leagues and not with the national team.

“We are here to compete at the top level with the players that we have,” Sanchez said. “We want to show to the world the good class of talent for volleyball that we have in our country.”

Cuba’s captain Rolando Cepeda said: “tomorrow’s match will be very interesting and important and we all hope we can show the best side of our volleyball.”